Bashing together parts...

[Sevenar]

Take 1 computer game model, scoop out its head, chop off an A:M model's head, stuff it in the helmet, put a pose slider on the visor, and...

 

You can make something like this, too: (why you'd want to, I don't know.)

[cfree68f]

very cool

[Roughy]

ey sevenar

 

did ya ever get all of the textures "glitches" worked out ? (as i missed all when i was banned :/ )

[Sevenar]

Sort of. I changed the diffuse color of the model to hide most of the gray patches, then I re-rigged it using TSM2.

 

The good thing is that the new Halo 2 models come out skinned properly in the first place, it's just the old Halo 1 models that have the glitched UV maps.

 

The only problem now is that when I chopped Gala's head off to put inside the helmet, the bones came over but none of the poses did, and when I try to transfer them between models they either don't work or distort the face in weird ways. I think it's probably due to the splines being renumbered, as most of the poses are direct spline manipulation by # instead of bones/smartskin poses.

 

Oh well, if it was easy, it would be boring, right?

[Sacman]

Is it possible to import the Gala model complete and just hide the portion you don't want. then the lip sync would still work right???

 

Wade

[Hutch]

I would try deleting everything from Gala that you don't want and then saving it as something else. Then import that. It should keep all of the poses and such.

[Sevenar]

Yeah, that dawned on me last night. What I had done was import Gala into a second model window and did a "copy/paste with bones" on just the head. What I should have done was import her into the MC's model window and then tossed out the stuff of hers I didn't need. D'oh! I'll try that today.

[Sevenar]

That seemed to work. Now I just have to be able to pick an environment map image without A:M crashing...

 

Anyone know off hand how/where to set the image name into the saved .MAT material file so I don't have to deal with the crashing picklist problem? (EDIT: Use the eyedropper tool and select an imported image from the image list in the PWS.)

 

 

Oh, and to the person who requested the model, send me another msg, please. I accidentally erased the first.

[Sevenar]

One more thing--make sure if you're going to do something like this to rename any bones that have the same name in both models first. I had to rename Gala's "Root", "Neck" and "Head" in order for the relationships not to interfere with each other.

 

Now, if I can get lip-sync to work, this will put me well on my way to making my film...